"To give birth in pain is natural, to die before turning 30 years, dirt, illness, too. It's natural that one out of ten children don't survive birth, that one out of twenty women die when giving birth. It's natural that only the strongest survive, that nearsighted don't read. There's nothing as natural as chickenpox, cancer, plagues, malaria.

Struggle against nature is the true engine of history. It's what trully take us apart from the rest of living creatures: our capacity to survive nature, as hard as it gets, in any place of this world. That's why you can find people living in arctic and in the ecuator. Intelligence is "the way to", not "the goal": It's the better way our genes have found to last, to make everlasting that uninterrupted inheritance of DNA that a good ancient day made its way out of the water, to light a fire, to carve on solid rock the first word, to reach the stars. Playing God? We've been doing this since the very moment homo sapiens invented a tool and became a creator. Because no other living creature had shaped its own reality in a way so that "the human way" was the standard measure.

Fear is natural, too. it's another genetical strategy to survive. And it's out of it that a refined status of fear appears: Superstition.Twenty centuries of catholicism make us stand in nature's defense, in the way universe has ordered, in the comfort of the explored poles of knowledge, of dogma against reason. The bad news is that we're walking backwards; there was less margin for doubt before. "Because, since there's no single way in truth opposing truth, either explanation given to holy words is necessarily wrong or the rebuttal is", admitted Legio XIII about contradictions between discoverings of science and catholic faith at his Providentissimus Deus, circa 1893. A long century later, vatican doctrine has turned much less flexible.

It's been decades in Rome since thesis rise against the open-minded Vatican Council II. The ones saying that Catholic church backs down by giving away have won, that all those attempts to get God closer to society are the cause of losing parishioners, that faith has not to adapt to the current times but time has to stop in faith's favor. It's the mountain that has to move, not Muhamad. Truth must not oppose truth. And truth can be found in the Bible, not in science, says now Ratzinger before old Legio XIII's doubt.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" said Arthur C. Clarke. And magic is the womb of miracle, that's why faith and science have always got along badly, because they struggle each other in hope's market. Miracle of life, its magic, is today a technology advanced enough to let two women share natural(sic) motherhood of a baby, to let one of them lend the belly and the other one her DNA. Soon enough next step's going to appear: A woman capable to have a baby mixing her genes with those of another woman, her partner, with no need of a man involved. It's been done with mice. Nest leap is even more incredible but not less closer: by taking a cell, from a little piece of skin, sperm could be created so a woman could fertilize herself, with the need of no one else's DNA. Against nature? Not further than peniciline or Moon landing. It only changes our way to be amazed.

Nature is not good by nature, but it isn't bad either. Nothing more natural than human beings, than its daily eagerness to life. It's natural to die, but it's also natural to struggle against death, that's why nowadays we live close to hundred years. Some geneticists say that the round number is a direct answer to a darwinist logic, for what doesn't die can't evolute and it's necessary to turn into manure to let the new grow and nurish. In the XX century antibiotics and personal hygiene were enough to double life expectancy; and nobody knows yet how much it's still going to be elongated.

A natural thing was that love lasted a lifetime, but life was short before. It followed one logic: to grow families stable enough to protect offspring. A natural thing is, anyway, much simpler than a mere marriage: it consists on that primal impulse, carved in fire within our genetical inheritance, that struggles to perpetuate our DNA. For nature eveything else is not important, a simple accesory. Nature doesn't know about pears or apples. Love is natural, even when those who love each other and want to love a child, their child, are two women in love."